Online Writing as a Form of Electronic Communication in a Second Year Biology Course

PROCEEDINGS

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, 2002
in Montreal, Canada
ISBN 978-1-880094-46-4
Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), San Diego, CA

Abstract

This paper considers student use of an online discussion forum in a second year Biology course and how that participation may be an indicator of increased student success in the course. The authors discuss how participation in the online discussion forum is a form of public writing in which the students need to have an understanding of the topic about which they are writing. It is this practice of writing with a clear understanding that may increase students' success in the course and not simply the use of online communications.

Citation

Collins, M. & Barbour, M. (2002). Online Writing as a Form of Electronic Communication in a Second Year Biology Course. In M. Driscoll & T. Reeves (Eds.), Proceedings of E-Learn 2002--World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (pp. 2544-2545). Montreal, Canada: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved May 25, 2019 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/9696/.